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Perhaps the most affecting moment among many such moments at the Midwest premiere of composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's "The Passenger," Tuesday night at Lyric Opera, came after the cast and creative team had taken their bows on stage at the Civic Opera House.

Joining them for the final curtain calls was Zofia Posmysz, the 91-year-old Polish author and Auschwitz survivor on whose novel of the same name Weinberg and his librettist, Alexander Medvedev, based their 1968 opera.

The appreciative applause that had greeted the singers, conductor Andrew Davis and stage director David Pountney swelled to a roaring ovation when Posmysz, looking a mite frail but ever-smiling,...

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